This link has a lot of cello related measurements. How can we calculated the string scale length of hypothetical 9/8 and 5/4 size cellos?
CELLO mm. | 1/2 | 3/4 | 7/8 | 4/4 | 9/8 | 5/4 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
string length | 602 | 637 | 672 | 695 | ? | ? |
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Sign up to join this communityThis link has a lot of cello related measurements. How can we calculated the string scale length of hypothetical 9/8 and 5/4 size cellos?
CELLO mm. | 1/2 | 3/4 | 7/8 | 4/4 | 9/8 | 5/4 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
string length | 602 | 637 | 672 | 695 | ? | ? |
There is no definitive answer to that, because neither is a standard. But if we look at the numbers we see that except for 3/4 all of them lie nearly perfectly on a line:
This would allow us to extrapolate linearly for 9/8 at 718mm and 5/4 at 741mm